Thorough self analysis

October 26, 2012

Hosted by Michael Figueroa

Guest Information

Episode Description

In this episode we will talk about how to analyze your current financial situation. How to assess your skills and resources, your ability to educate yourself, if you have any business mentors available to help you. We are also going to discuss character types that are typically successful in startups. Are you willing to dedicate the necessary time to make your startup work? We want our listeners to think - just what exactly am I willing to sacrifice to make this work? After this analysis we are then going to go through a few examples of career paths that we have taken and paths that we have seen friends take so that our listeners can see how things can tend to unfold.

Strategies for Financial Survival

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Our show is about teaching you to take command of your life, your survival and how you can educate yourself so that you are able to take care of yourself and your family.

Education methods include Provoking a thought process- an inquiry of your resolve to educate yourself in some manner in order to survive through tough financial times; Getting people to think that if I lose my job that I can educate myself in a way that allows me to survive.

Financial Survival discussions help you to see what you’re good at, how to grow it and make it happen. We will talk about real estate but it could be anything. Learn to think about how to survive in the future, give the ability to teach yourself and educate yourself like many others have done. We’ll help you find the tools to make it through hard times, no matter what your field.

Michael Figueroa

Michael Figueroa was born in New York City, raised in Easton, PA. until he moved to Tucson Arizona in 1969 to attend the University of Arizona to begin his studies, initially in Chinese language and history, later business and law. In Tucson, Michael worked as a law clerk, insurance salesman, a real estate title company salesman, and obtained his own agent and brokers licenses in 1980. He formed and grew a private mortgage banking company that was severely hit by the 1987 recession. Michael then experienced multiple lawsuits due to all the issues that arise when a business goes bankrupt. In the 1990s, he self-educated himself how to buy properties in foreclosure, bankruptcy, IRS and estate tax sales, and how to buy and sell judgments. Michael has been involved in hundreds of foreclosure sales. By 2000 as the economy improved he syndicated and subdivided land in to building lots and helped to create a development company that raised in investor and bank capital over $100,000,000. This was unfortunately also hit by the recession of 2007 that we are still in. In his Philanthropic and community activities, Michael has served on the Naval Special Warfare Foundation (Navy SEALs) where he currently sits as an ambassador on the advisory board. He is also a member of the Tucson Police Foundation, manages a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu academy, and served on the advisory board of the Yangtze International University in Nanjing, China. He is also a member of the Vatican Observatory Foundation.